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Cognitive Development Center

The Cognitive Development Center (CDC) was established in September 2008 for studying the cognitive development of babies and children. The research of the center addresses questions related to the ontogenesis of human cognitive capacities, especially action interpretation, mental attribution, social cognition, reasoning, communication, and basic cultural learning mechanisms.

Jun
Dima Amso

Departmental Colloquium: Infant learning and memory systems and impact on attention orienting

Dima Amso (Columbia University)
May
Melissa Kibbe

Departmental Colloquium: Computations underlying "arithmetic" over non-symbolic representations of quantity

Melissa Kibbe (Boston University)
May
Emily Liquin

Departmental Colloquium: How curiosity guides us towards good explanations

Emily Liquin (NYU)
Apr
Tobias Gerstenberg

Departmental Colloquium - Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition

Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)
Apr
Julia Leonard

Departmental Colloquium: Social influences on children’s persistence

Julia Leonard (Yale University)
Mar
Limor Raviv

Departmental Colloquium - Linking Language acquisition, language evolution, and language diversity: How social and cognitive pressures shape learning and communication

Limor Raviv (MPI Nijmegen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Mar
Baumard and Dubourg

Departmental Colloquium: What fictions do people like at different ages? Predictions from evolutionary developmental psychology

Nicolas Baumard and Edgar Dubourg (École Normale Supérieure)
Feb
Nadja Althaus

Departmental Colloquium: Words as cues to categorisation in infancy

Nadja Althaus (School of Psychology, University of East Anglia)
Jan
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium - Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness

Tecumseh Fitch (Dept of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)
Nov
Ori Friedman

Departmental Colloquium: Functions of Ownership

Ori Friedman (University of Waterloo)
Jul
Laurel Perkins

Departmental Colloquium: Linguistic and event representations in early verb learning

Laurel Perkins
Jun
Steven O. Roberts

Departmental Colloquium: Descriptive-to-prescriptive reasoning: An early emerging bias to maintain the status quo

Steven O. Roberts (Stanford University)
May
Bahar Koymen

Departmental Colloquium: Young children’s reason-giving and meta-talk in collaborative decision making

Bahar Koymen (Manchester University)
Apr
CEU Budapest

Emotion and Creativity in Music for the Brain

Psyche Loui
Off-campus
Apr
Emma Cohen

Departmental Colloquium: Evolution, sociality and the psychobiology of exercise performance

Emma Cohen (University of Oxford)
Mar
Chaz Firestone

Departmental Colloquium: Seeing “How”

Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins)
Feb
Stefanie Höhl

Departmental Colloquium: Neural synchrony in caregiver-child interactions

Stefanie Höhl (University of Vienna)
Feb
Peter Carruthers

Departmental Colloquium: Questions and model-free metacognition

Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland)
Feb
Tali Sharot

Departmental Colloquium: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Tali Sharot (University College of London)
Jan
Jonathan S. Phillips

Departmental Colloquium: Decomposing modal thought

Jonathan S. Phillips (Dartmouth University)
Dec
Thomas Bugnyar

Departmental Colloquium: Testing social cognition in non-human animals: lessons from ravens

Thomas Bugnyar (Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)
Nov
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium: Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Language

Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna)
Nov
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: How Temptation Makes Us Moral

Christina Starmans (University of Toronto)
Nov
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Inquiring Minds

Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)
Sep
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The cumulative cultural evolution of prehistoric symbolic artifacts

Kristian Tylén (Aarhus University )